J.K. Trotter

The reaction to a single tweet from a pizza parlor was immediate and ubiquitous, revolving around a single question: How did a septuagenarian Hollywood actor and current Brooklyn resident pass through 72 years on Earth without eating pizza? We dug up some history.

Charles M. Blow on Michele Bachmann's legacy, Joan Vennochi on Gabriel Gomez's political naiveté, Isaac Chotiner on the culture that created Chris Kyle, Jesselyn Radack on the politics of whistleblowing, and Irin Carmon on the gendered discussion of "work-life balance."

This has not been a good week for thee scandal-prone Rutgers University. Over the past week, questions surrounding Julie Hermann have heightened in number and intensity. Here's a guide to the controversy.

Michael Rosenberg on Rutgers's new athletic director, Sarah Kendzior on the myth of American opportunity, Danielle Ofri on the prevalence of hospital errors, Imani Gandy on the lessons of the Gosnell in the black community, and Glenn Greenwald on how journalists defend their own.

Retail conglomerate Walmart agreed to pay $81 million on Tuesday after the company admitted in a San Francisco court to dumping toxic sludge into sanitary sewers throughout the state of California and Missouri. It won't hurt that much, though.

This is what happens when ink-stained wretches get on two wheels. Following months of fevered warnings about Citibike, the city's famously excitable tabloids have begun to reverse course about the DayGlo-blue bikes installed throughout New York. You know, now that they've actually ridden them.

Amid a buzz of controversy about her role in invading the privacy of several Harvard staff members, Evelynn Hammonds, the Dean of Harvard College, will step down on July 1, five years and one month after she became both the first African-American and first female to occupy the highest office in Harvard's undergraduate school in June 2008.

Dan D'Addario on Dan Savage's politics, Eugene Robinson on victory in the War on Terror, Blake Zeff on Anthony Weiner's mayoral chance, David Dennis on the hidden side-effects of unpaid internships, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the Muslim reaction to violence.

Marissa Mayer is coming for online video — and the ads that accompany it. Days after announcing its $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging platform Tumblr, Yaho has submitted a bid for Hulu. Now starts the bidding war, all $2 billion of it.

Princeton's annual alumni bacchanal is in crisis. Reunions, as the well-documented event is known, coincides this year with a meningitis outbreak on Princeton's campus. But how serious of a threat, really, does meningitis pose to Princeton's campus-wide merriment? Not a whole lot — if Princetonians can hold off on making out too much.

Kiel Brennan-Marquez on the ethics of drones, Saeed Jones on New York's spate of attacks aimed at gay people, Jane Mayer on Obama's foreign policy speech, Bhaskar Sunkara on the future of liberalism, and Philip Preville on Toronto's scandalized mayor.

The National Council of the Boy Scouts of America passed a resolution permitting openly gay youth the participate in scouting activities on Thursday afternoon at a national meeting in Grapevine, Texas. Passed by a vote of 61% among 1,400 members, the resolution will go into effect in January 2014, and overturns more than century of organizational precedent.

Hurricane experts at the NOAA delivered some potentially bad news on Thursday: 2013's Atlantic hurricane season, is forecasted to be "active or extremely active," poised to produce 3-6 "major" hurricanes, 7-11 regular hurricanes, and more than a dozen tropical storms. And you should listen to them, despite the inherent weakness of predictions.

Which sport, you may wonder, best suits players to trade derivatives or devise credit default swaps? No outlet has given greater thought to this question than Bloomberg News, as evidenced by a curious trend item, published on Thursday, about the preponderance of college lacrosse players in the financial industry.

Modern Farmer on the yogurt industry's waste, The Associated Press on Portland's anti-fluoridation proposal, The Atlantic Cities on how to handle cargo in American cities, New York on what this summer holds for climate policy, and The New York Times on America's energy import strategy.

Well-to-do opponents of New York City's long-awaited Citibike program have notched several significant victories against New York's Department of Transportation over the past week — after a month-plus of delirious outrage, a small journalism scandal, and destructive vandalism.

Dana Milbank on how the government criminalizes reporting, Sharon Stapel on homophobia in America, Jarrod Shanahan on why we believe in conspiracies, Ma Jian on the brutality of China's one-child policy, and Emily Bazelon on who to blame for tax-dodging corporations.

Teenagers really are over Facebook. In a deep report published on Tuesday, Pew Research explains that teenagers departing the social network's blue confines are looking for something more... authentic. Which, ironically, was the initial draw of Facebook, and has become something of a calling card for Tumblr and Twitter. Somewhere, Marissa Mayer is smiling.

The Week on the coming solar energy boom, Time on the Oklahoma tornado and climate change, The Daily Beast on Chris Christie's take on Sandy, Grist on why utilities need to evolve, and Reuters on where the shale boom lags behind.

The Daily Beast on the second life of landfills, Ars Technica on "climigration," The Washington Post on the left's reaction to Obama's energy deliberations, Reuters on how fracking caused a battle over water, The New Yorker on the Keystone XL pipline's impact.

Farai Chideya on minority representation in the media, Lindsay L. Rodman on the data of sexual assault in the military, Pankaj Mishra on wealth and freedom in China, George Packer on the 21st century celebrity, Elizabeth Kolbert on the danger of the Keystone XL pipeline.

Grist on the information vacuum around fracking, The Atlantic Cities on Google's personalized maps, ABC News on the impact of climate change on human allergies, The Guardian on the threat of flooding in London, CNN on the specter of oil manipulation.

Héctor Carrillo on gay marriage in Brazil, Stephen L. Carter on the scope of the First Amendment, Melanie Springer Mock on the pitfalls of Christian adoption, Sarah Posner on Obama's 'Watergate', and Alexandra Petri on the manners of live theatre.

An arcane court case has revealed that an Ivy League university awarded a racist fellowship for 77 years. As it turns out, the school may have known about the "Caucasian" clause all along — even though its recipients did not. Columbia says it's trying to get back the money for "a diversity of students," but what happened in between? And why are we just learning about this now?

National Geographic on how cell phone can help fight pirate fishing, London Review of Books on the recent literature of climate change, The Huffington Post on the reality of our environmental harm, The New York Times on how insurers are dealing with increasingly catastrophic weather, and Forbes on the future of energy storage.

A public memorandum issued on Thursday by the Justice Department's Inspector General indicates that the U.S. Marshal Service was unable to locate two "known or suspected terrorists" participating in the Witness Security Program. Not the good news Attorney General Eric Holder was likely hoping for.

The company's selection of chicken and hearty sides is so popular that Palestinians living on the Gaza Strip, where imported goods and travel remain restricted, are willing to pay a team of smugglers to run KFC orders through underground tunnels, usually waiting four or more hours to see their orders fulfilled.